Biological dispersal refers to a species movement away from an existing population or away from the parent organism.

A dispersion is a system in which particles are dispersed in a continuous phase of a different composition (or state). See also emulsion.

In materials science, dispersion is the fraction of atoms of a material exposed to the surface. In general: where D is the dispersion, NS is the number of surface atoms and NT is the total number of atoms of the material.

To scatter in different directions; To break up and disappear; to dissipate; To disseminate; To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract; To distribute throughout

Finely divided or colloidal in nature, such as pigment particles completely separated in a binder as compared with several pigments particles stuck to one another.

Separation of a quantity.

The movement of a young bird from the site where it hatched to the site where it will breed. Natal dispersal is the permanent movement of young birds from their birth sites to their own breeding locations.

The act of organisms moving from one habitat to another

When an animal leaves an area and does not return.

Transport of spores to other sites.

20 objects (images) that relate to my word

20 situations relating to the word

blowing a dandelion

ink soaking into paper

tie dying

emigrating

transporting stock from a warehouse to a store

dismissing a class/lecture

rumours

smoke disappearing

storms

volcanoes

sieving

sorting money into individual piles

the sun

turning on a light

spilling a glass of water

bacteria multiplying

rioting getting out of hand

splashing

wind blowing something away

soaking

a tea bag being stewed

pulling an espresso from a coffee machine

playing marbles

sneezing

20 typefaces that relate/are appropriate to my word

I'm required to bring a small, medium, and large sized print out of each typeface for the word. So I have decided to do the small size as 12pt, medium as 36pt and big as 72pt.

One of the words that I picked from the randomiser for the silent movie brief is float.

In preparation for Thursday's workshop, I've to find a minimum of...

20 alternative words that relate to my word
To find the words, I used the thesaurus on Word and typed in float, then typed in related words that I thought best suited float, and got related words to these. Towards the end it feels a little off topic, but I think they are quite interesting.

Float

Drift

Sail

Glide

Hover

Soar

Hang

Lift

Fly

Sense

Detached

Moving

Free

Uncontrolled

Able

Unrestricted

Relaxing

Release

Exempt

Soothing

Comforting

Peaceful

Nonviolent

Liberated

Freethinking

Enlightened

20 meanings/interpretations of my word
I typed in Define: Float into google to find meanings.

A thing that is buoyant in water, in particular

A small object attached to a fishing line to indicate by moving when a fish bites

A cork or buoy supporting the edge of a fishing net

A hollow or inflated organ enabling an organism (such as the Portuguese man-of-war) to float in the water

A hollow structure fixed underneath an aircraft enabling it to take off and land on water

A device floating on the surface of a liquid that forms part of a valve apparatus controlling flow in and out of the enclosing container, e.g., in a toilet tank or a carburetor

A platform mounted on a truck and carrying a display in a parade - a carnival float

A hand tool with a rectangular blade used for smoothing plaster or concrete

A soft drink with a scoop of ice cream floating in it - root-beer floats

The period of time by which the duration of an activity may be extended without affecting the overall time for the process

Rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking - she relaxed, floating gently in the water

Cause (a buoyant object) to rest or move in such a way - trees were felled and floated downstream

Be suspended freely in a liquid or gas - fragments of chipped cartilage floated in the joint

Move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift - clouds floated across a brilliant blue sky - through the open window floated the sound of traffic

Circulate - the notion was floating around Capitol Hill

Come before the eyes or mind - the advice his father had given him floated into his mind

Make (the ball) travel lightly and effortlessly through the air- he floated the kick into the net

Put forward (an idea) as a suggestion or test of reactions

Offer the shares of (a company) for sale on the stock market for the first time

Fluctuate freely in value in accordance with supply and demand in the financial markets - a policy of letting the pound float

20 objects (images) that relate to my word

Images sources from Google images.

20 situations relating to the word
Situations I thought of whilst completing the first 3 points.

fishing float on a wishing wire

sunbathing on a lilo on water

milk float

boat/ship

floating on water

life guard ring

swimming

floating in space

hot air baloon

hovercraft

bubbles

kicked football

ice cubes floating in a drink

clouds in the sky

parade float

20 typefaces that relate/are appropriate to my word

I'm required to bring a small, medium, and large sized print out of each typeface for the word. So I have decided to do the small size as 12pt, medium as 36pt and big as 72pt.

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Top left is the project window - this is where compositions live, any imported documents.
To the right of this is the visual of what working with.
Bottom right has a timeline.
Bottom left is where the layers go.
The top right window is different workspaces. This should be reset to standard.

By default there is an info window which also includes an audio window.
Just below this is a preview options.
Under this is the effects menu. This gives different things that can be used in this software.

New composition
Rename the composition. The actual window of Aftereffects is a project which can have multiple compositions within it.
Next option down gives us presets. Today we're working with PAL D1/DV Widescreen Square Pixel

PAL is what we use in the UK. This is working at a frame rate of 25 per second.
Once this is selected it automatically selects the width and height.

Always start at 0 seconds for start time. The duration is important. Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames

Working to 10 seconds for today. This can be changed at any time.

The colour mode that we are using is RGB. There is also HSB but we wont use this for now. Having RGB set to 0 is nothing, meaning no light is coming through, 255 is the highest value.

Once we click ok, this now changed the look of the window.

Selecting the composition on the left then going to composition at the top will allow us to go back to the previous window and change anything if need be.

To create a layer to work with go to layer at the top. This gives multiple options to choose from. Here we are working with solid.

Anything in yellow for numbers in terms of size can either be clicked on to change or click and drag them and this will also change it.

When click ok, this places it in the center of the screen.

The toggles on the bottom left will be revealed at a later date. In the time line is had put the bar on for the full 10 seconds, so this means that this square will appear for the full 10 seconds on the screen.

To scroll between the time frame, click and drag on the little yellow icon above the red line. The rest line is what frame of the composition is being shown.

Moving the length of the red bar within the timeline window changed how long that layer is on screen and when within the composition.

Move the layer by clicking and dragging it about.

A layer can only contain one thing at a time. To add more layers just do the same process.

They each have their own bar on the time line.

There are more ways to play stuff back than clicking and dragging the red line. This is the quickest way to see if something works, and testing things out.
Another way to play things back is to press the space bar. This is useful for simple things. It can only deal with small bits at a time.
The other way to preview if something works is the menu bar on the right. This buffers up first and loads it into its ram memory and plays the project back in real time.

The 'full' option can be edited to have a lower quality which may help the real time playback. It only effects the viewing on screen whilst working on it, it doesn't change the final export of it.

The bottomlayer in the pallet is the bottom of the stack and and places on top of it will cover it in the screen also, similar to Photoshop.

To zoom in and out can either use the scroll ball on the mouse, also either the option in the bottom left of the screen, or press cmd and + or -

To zoom in on the timeline, on the grey bar at the top there is little yellow tabs (top ones). Moving these allows us to zoom in to look closer at a specific time frame within the composition. Clicking and dragging the middle then allows you to scroll between the whole composition at that zoom.

The tool key is another cool function. It is the key between shift and z. This pushes the window to the maximum I can go. The window that is selected.

Clicking and dragging on the edges of the windows can also resize them within the whole project window.

To save a project, you save the file as Adobe Aftereffects.

On the layers pallet if you click the little triangle, it reveals more options for the layer.

Using these allow you to edit the square.

You can also set key frames and give it something to do between a set amount of time.

To save to be able to upload to put on the blog, can't go to file save, need to go to composition and add to render queue.

Change the format.

Then when it's ready, click render and choose where to save it to and name it. When the projects have a lot on them the render time will get slower.